In 2018, unique malicious objects (including scripts, exploits and executable files) detected by Kaspersky\u2019s web antivirus solution totalled 21,643,946, rising to 24,610,126 this year. The growth accounts for an increase in the number and variety of HTML pages and scripts with hidden data loading \u2013 usually used by unscrupulous advertisers. Yet, most notably, the growth was also partially caused by online skimmers (sometimes referred to as sniffers) \u2013 where scripts are embedded by attackers in online stores and used to steal users\u2019 credit card data from websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The growth of online\nskimmers\u2019 unique files (scripts and HTML) detected by Kaspersky web antivirus\nequaled 187%, reaching 510,000. At the same time the number of threats detected\nby web antivirus have risen five-fold (by 523%), totalling 2,660,000 in 2019.\nWeb skimmers also entered the top 20 malicious objects detected online, taking\n10th place in the overall ranking. The share of new backdoors and banking\nTrojan files, among all types of threats detected in-lab, also grew by 134% and\n61% to reach 7,644,402 and 739,551 respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nevertheless, the number\nof unique malicious URLs detected by Kaspersky web antivirus halved in\ncomparison to 2018 (50.5%) \u2013 from 554,159,621 to 273,782,113. This shift was\nlargely caused by a significant decrease of hidden web miners, even though\nseveral detections related to them can still be seen in the top 20 web malware\nthreats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The presence of programs that secretly generate cryptocurrency on users\u2019 computers (called \u2018local\u2019 miners) has also been steadily declining over the year; the number of users\u2019 computers affected by attempts to install miners dropped by 59%, from 5,638,828 to 2,259,038. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A total of 85% of web threats were detected as malicious URL \u2013 this detection name is used to identify links from Kaspersky\u2019s blacklist. It includes links to web pages containing redirects to exploits, sites with exploits and other malicious programs, botnet command and control centres and extortion websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe volume of online\nattacks has been growing for years, but in 2019 we saw a clear shift from\ncertain types of attacks that are becoming ineffective, to the ones focused on\ngaining clear profit from users,\u201d said Vyacheslav Zakorzhevsky, Head of\nAnti-Malware Research at Kaspersky. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is partly due to\nusers becoming more aware of the threats and how to avoid them and\norganisations steadily becoming more responsible. A good example is miners,\nwhich have lost their popularity due to lower profitability and\ncryptocurrencies\u2019 fight against covert mining. This year we also witnessed\ngrowth in zero-day exploits, showing products remain vulnerable and are used by\nattackers for sophisticated attacks, and this trend is likely to continue in\nthe future.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n The number of new\nmalicious files processed by Kaspersky\u2019s in-lab detection technologies amounted\nto 342,102 – which is 1.05% less than the previous year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 2019, the number of unique malicious objects detected by Kaspersky\u2019s web antivirus solution rose by an eighth, compared to last year – reaching 24,610,126. This growth was mainly influenced by a 187% rise in web skimmer files. Other threats, such as backdoors and banking Trojans detected in-lab, also grew, while the presence of miners […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":16825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,821,399],"tags":[5833,1887,226,2003,12010],"class_list":["post-30854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enterprise-security","category-infographics","category-more-news","tag-antivirus","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-kaspersky","tag-trojans","tag-vyacheslav-zakorzhevsky"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30856,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30854\/revisions\/30856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/12\/Infographic-2019-malware-landscape-in-numbers-724x1024.jpg\")
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